Guest Speaker: Thad Starr

Guest Speaker:Dr. Priyadarshini Chakrabarti Basu

Priya earned her Ph.D. in Zoology from University of Calcutta in India, where she studied the effects of pesticides on wild Indian honey bees. A gold medalist in her Master’s, Priya has been the recipient of the prestigious INSPIRE Fellowship by the Department of Science & Technology (Government of India), the highly competitive Royal Society Newton International Fellowship by the Royal Society and the prominent Newton-Bhaba PhD Placement Fellowship jointly by the governments of India and UK. In 2019, Priya received the OSU Phi Kappa Phi Postdoctoral Scientist Award and the OSU Postdoctoral Excellence Award. Priya has published several peer reviewed scientific manuscripts, books chapters and extension articles. She has been an active participant in sharing research with various beekeeping groups across Oregon. Apart from mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, Priya also interacts at daylong seminars with schoolchildren to teach honey bee biology and spread environmental and pollinator awareness.